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Musicam Sacram: Preference for sung Masses; degrees of sung participation; my observations of 30 years

June 15, 2010 by Aristotle A. Esguerra — 2 comments.

Below are primary-source citations from the Church’s 1967 Instruction on Music in the Liturgy Musicam Sacram outlining the Church’s preference for the sung Liturgy, the degrees by which a parish may move toward the sung Mass, and my own observations of how faithful the members of the Church have been in instituting the sung Mass.

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Tags: Musicam Sacram (1967); Roman Rite (Ordinary Form); Sung Mass (Missa Cantata).

Congregational music of the Mass according to the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite: a primary-source overview

June 14, 2010 by Aristotle A. Esguerra — 2 comments.

From Musicam Sacram (the Church’s 1967 Instruction of Music in the Liturgy) and the latest version of the General Instruction of the Roman Missal, below are some points regarding the fostering of prayerful congregational singing during celebrations of the Ordinary Form of the Roman-Rite Mass. Rather extensive inline commentary on my part is included.

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Tags: General Instruction of the Roman Missal (GIRM); Musicam Sacram (1967); Roman Rite (Ordinary Form); Sung Mass (Missa Cantata).

“Sing to the Lord” – an out-of-context citation?

August 4, 2009 by Aristotle A. Esguerra — 0 comments.

When the USCCB document Sing to the Lord: Music in Divine Worship (SttL) was released almost two years ago, I did a quick once-over of it, and seeing that it more or less harmonized with the Vatican II Constitution on the Liturgy Sacrosanctum Concilium (SSC) and the 1967 Instruction Musicam Sacram (MS), I paid it [...]

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Tags: Musicam Sacram (1967); Sacrosanctum Concilium; Sing to the Lord (USCCB 2007).

Lessons in liturgical music from the Light of the East

March 31, 2009 by Aristotle A. Esguerra — 1 comment.

From Catholic News Agency via the Catholic Anchor newspaper of the Archdiocese of Anchorage comes this interview with two Eastern Rite cantors. Below are some excerpts from the article that Roman Catholics would do well to reflect on (comments and emphases added). Byzantine singing compared to “conversation with God” by James DeCrane For Byzantine Catholics, [...]

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Tags: Anchorage (Alaska); Archdiocese of Anchorage; Blessed Theodore Romzha Mission (Wasilla); Byzantine Catholic Church (Ruthenian); Catholic Anchor (newspaper); Catholic News Agency; Divine Liturgy of St. Basil; Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom; James A. Reilly; John Michalski; Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger; Musicam Sacram (1967); Pope Benedict XVI; Ron Kichura; Sacrosanctum Concilium; St. Augustine of Hippo; St. Nicholas of Myra Byzantine Catholic Church (Anchorage); Wasilla (Alaska).